Review: Dying Light – Run Like Hell | DualShockers

As more and more zombie-survival and zombie-focused titles are huddling together, the genre has almost become a reflection of itself: shambling and worn-out, yet the hordes of titles with some variation on “dead” in the title just keep on coming.

Though many titles within the past decade, like Left 4 Dead, Call of Duty‘s various zombie modes, Day Z, The Last of Us, and more have been some of the most popular titles to have players hack away at the end dead, finding ways to keep the dead fresh (already difficult due to the smell alone, I’m sure) is much easier said than done. This all makes Dying Light a more curious entry in the zombie canon. It ticks off all the usual boxes of what’s in a zombie-centric game — horribly ravaged environments, a loss of hope, humans struggling for survival.

A six? I'm going to have to strongly disagree with this score. I think an 8 is deserved, Dying Light is some of the best fun I have had so far this gen..and when you get to have other players with you it becomes a blast.

I love the traversing around the area too, and when you get the grappling hook...oh man does this game become even more fun.

After the hot messes that became dead island and riptide I'd understand why the next iteration of this game would be considered crap...but this game has became a fallout but with zombies and a chunk of content missing as compared to fallout 3 in which albeit is a pretty great game. it's soo good it got my twitch watching starcraft and COD playing friend off his virtual high horse just To play co-op with me with at least 120 hours of game time. He even asked me if I wanted to play some dying light the other day, I almost passed out due to the sheer shock that he would even ask... this game is an high 8. Lowest a 7.5, any lower is considered trolling

Oh? So now Dualshockers are also "nitpicking critics with no prior expertise in journalism"?

I could also go ahead and judge gamers who wagon jump into insulting any website who doesn't favor their games of choice. It's ridiculous, specially when it comes to a game like Dying Light. It might not be bad, but it's still just another game in a stale genre of video games, you can't expect to have anyone fall head over heels for a zombie game nowadays, specially when it isn't even a horror game.

I was speaking in general terms, most websites have a tendency to spoil their reputation when someone comes out with a ridiculous score like this.

Dying light is a game that does what it seeked out to do near perfectly it's a game that centers around melee combat and parkour aspects, which are top notch. The skill tree is easy to follow and the moves you learn are actually helpful an amazingly fun to pull off. Unlike countless other games where you play through them without even bothering with half he moves.

In don't know how you came to the conclusion that it's a tired genre when there's practically no game out there quite like dying light in terms of the parkour and the melee combat. Zombies are not a genre if that's what you mean, when it comes to video games, it's an FPS...

Countless hours of side quest and and interesting among character and plot are just a few perks that this game offers.

This game deserves at least a 7.5, 6? Meaning it's mediocre? Don't blame me for calling out the review. Click bait...

Not everyone's am all out click baiter, there's some sneaky websites out there that act honorable...

I honestly think this game is getting some criticism that's just based entirely on the lingering bad taste left by Dead Island. Even people who are playing it and seeing how nicely put together it is are seeing it through Dead Island tinted glasses and declaring it another rushed, buggy Techland game despite it actually being quite carefully crafted and well made, at least compared to a lot of other recent full retail games.